La. auto body shop owner to run for insurance commissioner (video)

Another Southern body shop owner has announced he’ll run as insurance commissioner.

Matt Parker of West Monroe, La.-based Parker Auto Body plans to take on incumbent Commissioner Jim Donelon, a fellow Republican, according to KNOE and an Associated Press report posted on the station.

Donelon became commissioner in 2006, while Parker has never run for office, according to the Associated Press.

“I do not seek to be the Insurance Commissioner to launch a political career, but, rather, I want to be Insurance Commissioner to launch a crusade for the consumers of Louisiana,” Parker said in a statement.